TRANSCENDING HEALTH
Train your nervous system, improve resilience, enhance mental clarity, and recover faster with guided breathwork and meditation practices designed to help regulate stress from the inside out.
Breathwork and meditation at Transcending Health are guided, one-on-one or small-group sessions that use specific breathing patterns and mindfulness practices to lower stress, improve sleep and focus, and support vagal tone and emotional regulation. Sessions are led by founder Drew Edmondson, who is certified in Transformation Breathwork, Vinyasa and Kundalini yoga, at 1445 Rio Road East, Suite 201 F in Charlottesville, Virginia, seven days a week. Breathwork is often combined with sound healing, nervous system regulation, and vagus nerve support.
Every breath changes your heart rate, your brain activity, your blood chemistry, and your stress hormones. When you learn to control your breathing, you can shift out of stress and into recovery. That is the basis of calm, resilience, and better performance.
Slow, controlled breathing helps your body use oxygen well. It also quiets a busy mind. The result is better focus, clearer decisions, more creativity, and steadier emotions.
Breathwork stimulates the vagus nerve. That helps the body move out of "fight or flight" and into rest mode. In rest mode, the body digests, heals, and recovers.
Guided breathing lowers stress hormones and calms the mind. It becomes easier to fall asleep, stay asleep, and wake up feeling rested.
Athletes and high performers train their breath to build endurance and CO₂ tolerance. It also helps them stay focused under pressure, recover faster, and handle stress with more ease.
Chronic stress affects far more than your mood. It shapes pain, digestion, sleep, immune health, hormones, heart health, and how fast you recover. Guided breathwork and meditation help bring the nervous system back into balance. Then the body can work the way it was built to work.
Ease chronic stress, emotional fatigue, and burnout. A steadier nervous system means you bounce back faster.
Learn breathing tools that quiet anxious thoughts, soften panic, and give you a real sense of calm and control.
Quiet a racing mind, relax more fully, and build sleep habits that leave you rested and recovered.
Breathwork helps tense muscles let go and calms pain pathways in the nervous system. It works well alongside hands-on care and rehab.
Breathe more efficiently, stay focused under pressure, recover faster, and build endurance for training and competition.
Sharpen focus, memory, and mental stamina with steady breathing and mindfulness practice.
Regular breath training may support heart health by calming an overactive stress response.
Healing from injury, illness, or surgery? A calm nervous system gives the body the conditions it needs to repair.
At Transcending Health, breathwork and meditation often pair with acupuncture, sound healing, massage therapy, SoftWave Therapy, focused cryotherapy, corrective exercise, and nutrition coaching. Caring for the body and the nervous system together builds a stronger base for recovery and long-term wellness.
Breathwork and meditation sessions at Transcending Health meet your body where it is. You may be dealing with stress, poor sleep, anxiety, chronic pain, athletic pressure, or mental fatigue. Either way, we guide you through practical techniques that put you back in control of how you feel.
Each session blends teaching, guided practice, and nervous system training. You leave with tools you can use at home, at work, before training, after treatment, or in a stressful moment.
Schedule Breathwork SessionLearn to breathe deeply from the diaphragm instead of shallow breaths from the chest. This rebuilds healthy breathing from the ground up.
A simple, structured method used to sharpen focus, calm stress, and stay in control during high-pressure moments.
Slow, steady breathing that supports heart rate variability, emotional balance, and deep rest.
Mindfulness, body scanning, and visualization practices that cut through mental noise and build inner steadiness.
Every session is shaped around your goals, your stress level, and your health history. You might want less anxiety, better athletic performance, relief from chronic stress, or simply a way to reconnect with yourself. Each session is built to make real, measurable progress.
We talk through your health history, lifestyle, stress, sleep, breathing habits, and goals. That tells us which breathing and meditation tools will work best for you.
You learn practical breathing techniques that settle your nervous system, help you use oxygen well, and give you more control over your stress response.
Guided meditation quiets mental chatter and builds focus and emotional awareness. It also helps release tension held throughout the body.
Before you leave, you get simple daily breathing and mindfulness exercises. The benefits keep growing after your visit and become part of your routine.
Handle everyday challenges with more ease.
Rest more deeply and recover more fully.
Think more clearly and stay on task.
Build tools that last a lifetime.
Breathwork prepares the nervous system. Meditation quiets the mind. Sound helps the body let go and sink into deep rest. Together, they make a richer experience for calming the nervous system and helping the whole body recover.
At Transcending Health, breathwork and meditation can be paired with crystal singing bowls, binaural beats, low vibration you can feel, guided visualization, and restful positioning. The goal is to help the body shift out of stress and into a calm, settled state.
Explore Sound HealingGentle sound patterns that support relaxed focus, meditation, emotional balance, and a stronger mind-body connection.
Low vibration you feel in the body adds a physical layer to meditation. It helps you feel grounded, settled, and deeply rested.
Clear, pure tones fill the room with sound. They support relaxation, breath awareness, and a calmer nervous system.
Each session weaves together breathing, meditation, sound, and recovery cues so the experience feels grounded and purposeful.
Breathwork and meditation are skills. The more you practice, the faster your nervous system learns to return to calm. You recover from stress sooner and stay focused under pressure.
Many clients feel lighter, calmer, clearer, and more grounded after their first guided session.
You start to notice stress sooner. You reach for your breathing tools before tension builds.
Sleep, mood, focus, and recovery may improve as breathwork becomes part of your routine.
Breathwork becomes a lifelong tool for stress, performance, pain, recovery, and a clear mind.
New to meditation? Want to go deeper with a practice you already have? Either way, we guide you every step of the way.
Not at all. Most of our clients are beginners. Every session is guided and shaped to you, so you feel at ease no matter your experience.
That is normal. Meditation is not about stopping thoughts. It is about learning to watch them without getting swept away. Over time, your focus improves on its own.
Most sessions last about 45 to 60 minutes. The length depends on your goals and whether breathwork is paired with meditation, sound healing, or other services.
Yes. Guided breathing is widely used to calm the nervous system, soften the stress response, and build emotional resilience. Many clients feel calmer after just one session.
Yes. Athletes use breathwork to use oxygen better, stay focused under pressure, recover faster, and build endurance.
Yes. Breathwork and meditation pair well with Sound Healing, Acupuncture, Massage Therapy, SoftWave Therapy, Focused Cryotherapy, Personal Training, and Nutrition Coaching. Together they form a complete approach to your health.
Breathwork and meditation give you practical tools to regulate stress, improve focus, support recovery, and reconnect with your body. Start with a guided session at Transcending Health and learn how to create calm from the inside out.